Gillispie Science and Polity in France

The End of the Old Regime
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2461-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 616 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
A Note on the Citations, pg. xi
Chapter I. The State And Science, pg. 3
Chapter II. Science and the State, pg. 74
Chapter III. Science and Medicine, pg. 187
CHAPTER IV. Scientists and Charlatans, pg. 257
CHAPTER V. Trades and Agriculture, pg. 335
CHAPTER VI. Industry and Invention, pg. 388
CHAPTER VII. Engineering, Civil and Military, pg. 479
Conclusion, pg. 549
Bibliography, pg. 553
Index, pg. 579

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Coulston Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University, where he founded the program in History and Philosophy of Science in 1960. His books include The Edge of Objectivity; Lazare Carnot Savant; The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation; Pierre-Simon Laplace: A Life in Exact Science; and Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime (all Princeton). He was also the editor of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (16 volumes, 1970-1980). In 1997, he was awarded the Balzan Prize in the History and Philosophy of Science.